Algolia

The Algolia model provides “search” as a service, offering web search across a client's website using an externally hosted search engine. Algolia is a search engine for your content, inventory, documents, anything. Data can also be filtered according to the need using facets(filters) provided by Algolia.

Why is it being used in Eshopbox?

• For faster access to data that needs to be accessed in real-time. Eg. Products displayed by front-end on sites.

• For data that needs multiple sorting/filters.

Audience

All software backend, frontend, and mean stack engineers.

Advantages

• Faster real-time search with minimal latency.

• Sorting and filtering of data are easier.

References

https://www.algolia.com/doc/